BLUE SKY MINING
MIDNIGHT OIL
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Midnight Oil – Blue Sky Mining Limited Edition Clear Blue Vinyl + Signed Book Set
Midnight Oil – Blue Sky Mining (Limited Edition Clear Blue Vinyl + Signed Book Set)
Own a truly special piece of Australian music history with this strictly limited edition collector's set featuring Midnight Oil's iconic Blue Sky Mining pressed on stunning clear blue vinyl, paired with Red Filter Blue Sky – an exclusive 100-page photography book by guitarist Jim Moginie.
Captured during the legendary 1990 Blue Sky Mining tour, the book offers a rare behind-the-scenes look through Jim's own lens, showcasing an extraordinary collection of photographs from one of Australia's most influential bands at the height of their career.
Each copy of Red Filter Blue Sky is personally signed by Jim Moginie and individually numbered, making every set a genuine collector's item.
With only 300 record and book packs produced worldwide, this is an exceptionally rare release that will never be reprinted. Once they're gone, they're gone.
Exclusively available through this website, this is your only opportunity to secure one of the most sought-after Midnight Oil collector's editions ever released.
RED FILTER BLUE SKY
Photographs by Jim Moginie
Midnight Oil’s Blue Sky Mining worldwide tour consisted of approximately 114 shows in 1990.
While researching my book The Silver River, I found an Ilford film box marked “Kerry: Midnight Oil”, containing a series of photographs I had taken at that time with a Nikon FG-1 film camera, using black-and-white film with a red filter.
Most of the band had film cameras then. We wanted to get those John Ford clouds that everyone in photography talks about.
My son Sam has a printing press in Melbourne and suggested we make a funky small book from them called Red Filter Blue Sky. We both thought it timely that it first appeared bundled with the Blue Sky Mining album reissue.
They say “it’s all about the work” — and there was much of it.
The photos are a jump-start memory of that time.
Airport tarmacs, Akubra hats, fans at airports, crew, Harley-Davidsons, guitars, backstage, floral hotel-room bedspreads, Roman amphitheatres, existential angst, feeding babies, the tour bus and images taken from its fast-moving window.
And the guys — and the kind of enchanted chemistry only a long-term band like Midnight Oil can achieve: the blank looks, the shit-eating grins, the mid-distance stares.
Joking and laughing, waiting in hotel lobbies followed by more waiting, deep camaraderie.
Jim Moginie
2026